I was just wondering if anyone here started to lose their hair as a teenager, and if so how did they react?

or if you have not started losing your hair how would you react to starting to lose your hair on your 18th birthday?

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Well this isn't about me, I have hair. But I have known someone who started going bald at 18, from how I have seen he didn't really react, but he had worse problems ( musclar distrophy) also I knew someone who had their hair go grey at 20 years old, he's now dead had cancer, but didn't seem to bother him either.

I've got grey hair already coming through, because my dad got it when he was 18, as did his dad ... etc

I just live with it, and get on with life - plus it doesn't bother me at all - I think, "This is me - if anyone who doesn't like me, why should I spend time bothering with them?" - That mindset works well

well I did start losing my hair when I was 18 or 19. I started to see a couple of generic doctors and use those crap that they sell in pharmacies but didn't really work out. So I suggest you not to try them. Find a good specialist. I did it. A DOCTOR. I repeat a DOCTOR, not a pharmacist or anyone else. A doctor that is specialized in baldness. They are dermathologists, but not generic ones, they work only with baldness. My doc told me that there was a discrepancy between the ratio at which my hair grew and fell because of all the crap I had on my skin. It was not really an alopecia, even because in my family noone had it. He gave me a topic lotion and some pills (nothing strong) made by a pharmacy and my skin was stabilized, so now my hair grow and fall at a natural ratio, and it seems now I have twice the hair I had until a couple of years ago. To make a long story short, don't despair! There are thousands reasons why hair may fall. And over 70% of problems between 18 and 35 years can be solved without surgery. so my doc told me. So, find out what is making your hair fall, see a good specialist, follow his instructions. Hope it helped

I have a friend who started losing his in his teens, and is now sporting a rather
tasteless thinning mullet. He's still one of the most boisterous people I've ever known, and doesn't appear to be affected by the hair loss too much.

For me, my hair has been part of my identity for over a decade, I'd be devastated to lose it, at any age

my old school captain was losing hair when he was around 18, he was still popular and smart. this sounds cliche but people liked him for his personality. i was even attracted to him because he didnt let his hair loss take him over,and he was just such an awesome cool person. i know im not in your position but dont worry.

if you are religious. "god only made a few perfect heads. the rest he covered with hair."

or as the shirt my dad wears says. "who needs hair with a body like this"

but honestly i was in that boat. i started losing hair my senior year in high school and i was really scared. It was actually do to stress. i got most of it back but now that i'm in my late 20s i'm actually starting to lose a lot of it. i like to pretend that it doesnt bother me but it does and it sucks knowing there is really nothing i can do about it.

Not really teenage baldness but I've been balding since I was 22 yrs old and it's has drained all my life force. With all the other problems I had the balding was the icing on the cake and I just feel like dying.